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page 2 the tribune thursday july 1 171 zz mdiiinflli established 1sss c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor wna published every thursday by inland publishing co limited at 54 main st stouffville ont tl 6402101 single copies 15c subscriptions 500 per year in canada s9g0 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number 0896 ijeditariai stop look listen twice each day monday through friday a fast moving commuter train tj travels between stouffville and markham on a rail route containing five level crossings none are protected by automatic to signals four of these are crossovers on z sideroads where for the alert motorist visibility both ways is adequate a fifth on the ninth line of markham s is a definite hazard particularly for southbound traffic in the morning the 5 dayliner should and we repeat should f pass this point about 710 am however a few minutes ahead of or behind schedule can be expected in recent years with only a few freights lumbering through the area drivers have had little cause for concern and most motorists including our selves have shown little concern sailing across tracks without looking or listening let alone coming to a full stop this kind of carelessness must now end for eighty tons of steel holds priority over all else in its path dont take a chance and become a statistic a judicial disgrace within the last month cases pertaining to the former village of stouffville have been transferred from the court at rich mond hill to newmarket this has provided the tribune with an insight into proceedings there and the atmosphere in which these proceedings are held the newmarket courtroom in our opinion is a disgrace so disgraceful in fact that we wonder how judge russell pearse and his associates are able to carry out their duties so well the premises on the second floor of the town hall shows no sign of proper maintenance whatsoever with greasy fingerprints on the walls holes punched through the plaster and the woodwork scratched and chipped the neighborhood outside offers even less relief on a recent occasion the noise of garbage trucks in the street below was so disturbing his honor had difficulty hearing and making himself heard such an environment in no way commands respect for the law or for those whose duty it is to enforce it there is some talk of a new building just when no one seems sure one thing is certain its long overdue just cause for complaint the york police association has signified its opposition to a commission ruling that requires all former chiefs and sergeants to write examinations in order to regain positions held prior to the setting up of a regional based force in some instances as we understand it officers must submit to tests to retain positions held now both requirements in our opinion are unjust we feel the association has every right to appeal this policy and in fact would be negligent if it did not what we ask are the requirements of a competent police chief sergeant and constable is it seniority experience or is it concentrated study a book worm if the latter is accepted as the sole basis for promotion heaven help the people officers accepted who must bow to and live under such authority the experienced man may be no albert einstein but at least hes human and thats what we need in york the human cop editors mail the tribune issue june 3 published a picture of an arabian gelding at pine acres stables vivian we referred to it as a thoroughbred and immediately aroused controversy on all sides some argued there was no such animal others felt the description purebred was correct we have since received the following correspondence from mrs lee wong rr 3 stouffville that may ex- plainthe proper terminology it follows in part dear mr thomas further to our conversation i have looked into the use of the terms thoroughbred and purebred originally i had based my opinion on what i had read in books about horses and riding for example to quote from the book heads upheels down by c w anderson the name thoroughbred is often used when purebred is meant actually a thoroughbred is a horse whose sire and dam are both registered in the stud book and who thus traces his lineage back to three horses that found the line the darley arabian the godolphian arabian and the byerly turk these three were imported into england at the beginning of the 17th century and all thoroughbreds in the world are their descendants however on consulting funk and wagnalls standard college dictionary i found the following definition thorough bred pure and unmixed stock and thoroughbred a horse whose ancestry is recorded in the english stud book and is therefore descended from one of three eastern siresthe byerly turk the godolphin or the darley arabian it seems therefore that it is proper to use the term thoroughbred small t in the same context as purebred your usage was then correct my apologies one way to avoid the whole controversy is to use the term registered mrs lee wong rr 3 stouffville ps i suppose only a horse enthusiast can become so interested in such technicalities dear sir i am disappointed to think that your paper would downgrade a person trying to help young people bernie smith and upgrade four young people dedicated to communal living the influence exerted by the editor is obviously limited to the tribunes cir culation area and im sure that if a poll was taken among your readers the latter would not necessarily be true either w m english rr 1 stouffville dear sir canadian national railways com menced its commuter service between stouffville and toronto june 28 in making the announcement cn listed one way fare as 145 checking with cn information revealed no lower com muter rates are planned and there is no reduced rate for buying books of 10 tickets as is the case on go transit for anyone travelling to and from the city five days a week this would mean a cost of 1450 only one train a day is planned leaving stouffville at 705 am and returning at 620 pm almost a 12hour day when one gets home junior joble jump for joy j sugar and spice time to call back the old junkman l bill smiley theres a lot of talk about recycling these days that does not mean that great numbers of middleaged people are going back to the bicycle in despair over traffic and their own wretched physical condition although this is also hap pening and a good thing too recycling is basically the smashing up of such things as paper and tin and tur ning them back into more paper and tin instead of the polluting of our countryside with such garbage it is common practice in many of the countries of the world which are out stripping canada and the us in ternationally it also makes a great deal of common sense it boggles ones mind to think of the millions of tons of paper cans bottles and other reclaimable materials which head each week for the garbage dump there are several reasons for this vast wastage one of them is that we have tremendous natural resources and we throw them away with a lavish hand its like living on ones capital a second reason obviously is that industry is not geared for reclaiming waste in many cases its probably cheaper to produce new tins than to recycle tin for those who travel to the city by car each day the average cost of parking is approximately 150 a day with oil and gasoline averaging about 750 a week this means the motorist spends ap proximately 1500 a week to commute has the privacy and convenience of his car and in most cases would have a 10- hour day one can readily see there is not much incentive to use the rail service since the government has forced cn to provide the service and undertakes to make up 80 percent of any losses in volved i predict the losses will be sub stantial losses that will be paid by everyone roger varley 16 pine street stouffville a luxury the interior of the whitchurch highlands school is beautiful in fact some firsttime visitors might consider it luxurious but at the graduation exer cises friday evening parents teachers and students would have to agree one absolute necessity was omitted from the contract an air conditioner for the auditorium at one point in the program the interior became so unbearably hot many folks were forced to leave neither of these reasons is a valid one in the first place those inexhaustible resources of raw material could be exhausted in a few decades in the second industry should and must find cheap means of recycling manufactured materials into raw materials but of course its much simpler to look at the immediate buck its much sim pler just to raise the price of the product than to find methods of using disposable items over and over again like everything else the recycling business seems complicated a local organization is raising money for a worthy cause it is collecting newspapers but they must be bundled and tied just so and they dont want any other kinds of paper in the meantime i throw out five hundred pounds of books which have a higher rag content than the newsprint which is being picked up seems silly what ever became of the old junk man there was the ideal catalyst between the consumer and the recycler the perfect middleman when i was a kid the junkman was my chief source of income a vast genial jew with a benign twinkle he treated us as one business to another there was little haggling on our part because it was the only game in town but on the other hand he didnt try to beat us down prices were established pint beer bottles were worth a cent quarts two cents hed double his money on them old car tires were a nickel apiece paper and scrap iron were carefully weighed and after a judicious pause beard cocked to one side hed say i gif you twesf cents an enterprising kid could pick himself up forty or fifty cents a week big money in those days and if we caught a nice pike in the canal this was before people worried about sewage and such it was a bonanza worth a dime or fifteen cents but a meal for his family he prospered and many of the big fortunes in canada today started out in the junkyard the junkman was an unrecognized benefactor to society during the war there were tremendous drives for scrap metal and newsprint it must have been used for something pig farmers picked up the food garbage from big military kitchens why couldnt we do the same today it would provide employment stop wasting resources and do a lot to clean up our environment id be perfectly willing to sort my garbage into waste food bottles and cans and newspapers how about you we could all be our own junkmen and do a lot for our country 3whjnp another landmark soon a memory by jim thomas it seems like only yesterday we as a family would all be gathered around the old deforest crosley the supper dishes done the cows milked and bedded down for the night the big farmhouse kitchen was the centre of activity with amos n andy competing for attention against a review of the pythagoran therum nine oclock was treasure trail time it was also time for dad to sit back in his favorite chair and light up his pipe but then the discovery the height of all tragedies no tobacco it posed a problem as comforting as an oilless lamp in the middle of a thunderstorm the only solution get some jump on your wheel and slide over to grahams store my dad would say pick me up a package of old chum i needed no urging for a bike ride to markham for me then was probably more exciting than a trip to toronto for kids today and grahams store every bit as interesting as eatons perhaps more so for at least they knew me there well perhaps not my first name but at least it was herb thomass boy from over on the ninth i can still recall the nice wholesome smell that permeated the inside although i never did figure out its source very likely it was a combination of many things for the stock included almost everything the store was a busy spot people coming and going a few standing to talk awhile for some like myself the mission was an emergency a oneitem purchase for others it was a weekend order but friendliness across the counter was never measured in dollars and cents it was ladled out as liberally as jellybeans and humbugs i could have stood around for an hour but my dad and old chum had a more limited period of accepted separation thirty minutes was time enough to pedal i the distance there and back anything over and likely as not hed be meeting me half way and the old bike seat was hard enough without a sore bottom to boot grahams store has a history that dates back to 1892 seventynine years it was built by aretus urmy an 1830 native of whitchurch he and his wife the former judith wismer farmed on the 7th of markham later selling the property to tillman mcdowell a sonj albert assisted his father in the store and also taught in the mt joy public school that site is now the markham museum where this bit of history is recorded the late a p graham purchased the business from a mr rodd in 1915 a son earl joined his father three years later his wife nelda has carried on since her husbands passing in 1958 but all this will soon end for the property has been sold the purchaser norman mcleod of toronto plans to turn the store into an antique shop i called in saturday nothing seemed changed at least not really changed some of the shelves appeared a bit bare but this was in tended a clearing sale of products was in progress nelda took time to reminisce a little at one time 220 people picked up their mail here she said our hours were 830 to 7 and often until 11 on saturdays i then the war came and early closing was ordered to conserve power the towns changing nelda con tinued there svas a time when i knew everyone on the street peoples shop ping habits change too but a few of the north markhamites have remained loyal like mr and mrs frank reesor mr and mrs russ beare ken and mary deffett and the snowball family next door folks seem to like the plazas they want a variety if they run out she continued they walk to the corner store for a jug of milk but it takes more than that i then made my purchase two boxes of shreddies and two boxes of grapenut flakes feeling my neck a little as i left no corner stores cant exist on sales of breakfast cereal or old chum pipe tobacco either